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            The Big issue about this article is about The “F” word (Feminist), Minority among

groups are making Feminists look bad. A few comments toward Michelle Obama were like

about Forcing overload, being anti-male, educating her daughters as well as America’s girls, and

more. As I read through more of the article it seems as if the viewers are saying that Hillary

Clinton has been able to take on more political duties than Mrs. O, but others are saying that

it’s because her children were older than Mrs. O (Michelle Obama) daughters. Mrs. O decided

to dedicate more of her motherly duties more so over political duties, and a lot of people were

viewing her as a feminist. . Some statements quoted in the text reads, “many feminist have

forgotten that motherhood still works,” and “Blame feminism for the actions of black men in

Hip Ho, prison, and destruction of black community.”

G is known to understand how it is to be misunderstood by others, how these viewers

are placing Mrs. O at the bottom of leadership. Some readers are upset about the fact that being a full-time mother is considered to be “un-feminist.” As long as the political job gets done and women have equal rights then there should be no issue. A quote from one of the readers, Journey2Freedom( which also had the most ‘likes’ from her response) said,” I consider myself a feminist - I consider myself a feminist but have found it difficult to be a part of the white female dominated movement which fails to realize that BLACK WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS WORKED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME! In fact, at one point in time, usually in THEIR HOMES because up until very recently it wasn't even an option for most of us.”

            The community of black and white, male vs. female is forming a discourse community of hate or anti-hate against leaders, while the media having a strong influence to these actions. The media has a way of changing the minds of what people see through pictures, blogs, and social networks, another quote from a reader says, “It’s funny how women try to put other women against each other and men don’t do that.” (Balling and tired of the BS)

            A reader from the comment post mentioned that Essence Magazine (media/ Blogs) plays a part in this act against Mrs. O (Michelle Obama) because, in most photos and articles they published or posted viewed Mrs. O as our fashion leader, parenting leader, hairstyle leader, etc. instead of strictly viewing her political works. Michelle Obama (Black African American) and Hillary Clinton (White) both are great leaders that have accomplished a lot of feminist duties and should not be compared or judged against each other feminist roles.

The comments of the articles speaks about the reaction of the topic about Michelle

 

Obama being our feminist leader. Throughput the 24 comments there is a mixture of male

 

and females responses, when Essence magazine is known to have an Audience of only

 

women, and ,mostly African American women. The topic was so broad and hit a lot of

 

people whether male or female that it even brought up in discussion of racial comments

 

and comparison with our former first lady Hillary Clinton. I will analysis these comments

 

into sections of positive responses and negative responses and point out how many ‘likes’

 

they receive by their comments. This way I can shoe to my readers how much the people

 

view this article, how it affected there set mind frame, how the people feel about Michelle

 

Obama, and other racial thoughts and comments about the comparison with Hillary

 

Clinton.

 

            The sections highlighted in yellow have the most ‘positive’ outlook in

 

commenting about this article, and the section highlighted in red is the sign of warning

 

giving off negative comments about the article. The chart below will show how many

 

likes or dislikes did each section receive and then we can come a conclusion of how the

 

media affects the minds of viewers.

 

                                   

                                    Positive           Negative          Likes   No Likes         female/male

Working man              *                                              2                                  M

DanI L. Rebel                         *                                              5                                  F

Links 31                      ?                      ?                      0                                  F

Asiainakron                 *                                              1                                  F

Journey2Freedom     *                                              11                                F

Balling & tired of BS  *                                              7                                  F

AriannaS                     ?                      *                      9                                  F

Del                                                      *                      4                                  F

AriannaS reply of Del ?                      ?                      7                                  F

Sydnie                         *                                              10                                F

 

The chart shows the few comments of the 24 from the reader’s response about the article

 

viewer Michelle Obama to be our feminist leader. It only published 1 comment from a

 

man and to be the first the response at that, and he seemed to view this article in a

 

positive way, that’s ideal coming from a man because they usually don’t get in the middle

 

of female discussions. The bold mark of the reader named Journey2freedom has gain the

 

most likes  throughout the published articles, I really feel like she made a good point

 

about the article and feminist and I myself would have ‘liked’ her comment too. There

 

was a brief back and forth response between AriannaS and Del, not so much about

 

political views but about how the people once viewed Michelle to be, which is all about

 

fashion and hair.